The shortlist for this year's Edge Hill Short Story Prize was announced earlier today, revealing a rather eclectic final five in the running for the UK's only recognised literary award for published single author short story collections. With the … [Read more...]
Dasgupta and Guest triumph at this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
April 13, 2010 By 4 Comments
Well, it's been a long haul since the sprawling regional shortlists for this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize were announced back in February, but from the final eight regional winners (split across 'Best Book' and 'Best First Book' categories), … [Read more...]
‘Book Bites’ for Tuesday 10th March 2010
March 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
American Book Review's Top 40 Bad Books - There's an interesting run down in the latest edition of American Book Review, on what is considered to be the 40 worst books in American literature. It's hard enough to define what makes a bad book at the … [Read more...]
‘Book Bites’ for Wednesday 17th February 2010
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Best Translated Book Award shortlists announced - Those interested in works-in-translation may like to know that the shortlist for this year’s Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA) has been announced. The winner will be announced on March 10th. Full … [Read more...]
Canongate serving up ‘Sum’ exciting events
November 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There's exciting times ahead in Edinburgh and London next week as David Eagleman, author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives flies in from the US for two very special events organised by UK publisher, Canongate. The first event in Edinburgh on … [Read more...]
Van Booy takes the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award
September 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Today was the day that Frank O’Connor Short Story Award winner was announced at the Stack Theatre, Cork City, Ireland, and I have it on good authority that the winner, selected from the shortlist of six (second 'Book Bite'), was Simon Van Booy for … [Read more...]